torpille
The verdict
“torpille” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,641. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,641
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de poisson voisin des raies, au corps arrondi et ayant un appareil électrique qui a la propriété de donner une commotion électrique à celui qui le touche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-torpille · torpille · French
torpille · rank #27,641 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,641
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tombeaux
Nearest frequency peer: tombeaux (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « torpille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- timidement
timidement
72,363 corpus weight
- TN
TN
72,362 corpus weight
- tombeaux
tombeaux
72,361 corpus weight
- torpille
torpille
72,360 corpus weight
- torturés
torturés
72,359 corpus weight
- Toul
Toul
72,358 corpus weight
What this shows « torpille » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | torpille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « torpille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around torpille, anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,641 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Espèce de poisson voisin des raies, au corps arrondi et ayant un appareil électrique qui a la propriété de donner une commotion électrique à celui qui le touche.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for torpille, with forms such as "otrpille", "toprille", and "toriplle". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is torpille, spelled T-O-R-P-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce de poisson voisin des raies, au corps arrondi et ayant un appareil électrique qui a la propriété de donner une commotion électrique à celui qui le touche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how torpille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais pour ces deux femmes initiées aux mystères de son amour, sa contenance, le son de sa voix, l’expression de ses regards, eurent un peu de la puissance attribuée à la torpille.
Je nageais sous eau^([sic])... quand, soudain, a surgi une torpille. La maudite bête s'est aussitôt élancée vers moi...
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otrpille
- toprille
- toriplle
- torpile
- torpilel
- torplile
- torppille
- torrpille
- tropille
- ttorpille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of torpille - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).